You are invited to look at yourself in a new way, to see how healthy you are as a person, according to the 3000-year-old wisdom of the Bible. The Character Assessment Scale - mini (CASm) is a free, secure, anonymous online test that measures beliefs and habits relating to moral character as defined in the Bible – fruits of the spirit and fruits of the flesh. To keep it free and secure, it is published by the 501(c)3 Wellness Education for Living and Loving, WELL Inc. Your results are sent instantly to the email address you give, and after that, to save your time and anonymity, no more emails will be sent.
Scripture offers several major guides to how we should believe and conduct ourselves, including Abraham’s first covenant in Genesis 12, the ten commandments, the book of Proverbs, Jesus’ sermon on the mount, and Jesus’ two great commandments. In all these places, the Bible tells us that these guidelines are given for our well-being and for others, so that we’d live long, healthy, and fruitful lives. Taken together, they provide a model of moral character, a Biblical guide to the good life.
In these passages, the interplay of spirit and flesh portrays the forces of life and death as they act upon human lives and groups. This dynamic model was given to us when King Solomon asked for and received wisdom (I Kings 3). Healers, mystics, and leaders from all over the western world visited with Solomon in Jerusalem, and took these teachings back home. His hospitality and superior wisdom (I Kings 4: 29-34) made Jerusalem the world’s first international learning center, and these same standards for the fruits of the flesh and the spirit are still seen in all three major religions of the Western world.
Because the CASm is so short (only four items per scale), you 27 scores ranging from 1 through 9 merely give a very rough estimate of how many people out of 10 would likely have less of this trait than you. The scales measure what the Bible teaches will bring us life over death, wisdom over foolishness in our lives. The CASm just takes 15 minutes to complete, and immediately gives you two pages of emailed feedback. If you’re ready to go ahead and take the test without knowing more about it, skip to the last two lines of this page. But if you want to know a little more, just keep reading this page. To learn a lot more, you can go to mynewlife.com/about-the-cas.
Your test will measure nine soul foods we are all made to give, receive, and long for: TRUTH, PEACE, HONOR, LOVE, GRACE, LOVEMAKING, WEALTH, PURPOSE, and physical HEALTH. Life-giving fruits of the spirit all come from the indwelling and outpouring spirit of our loving God. Believing this, we find that the more we give, the more we can give, to others, and also to ourselves as caretakers. By contrast, life-draining fruits of the flesh all come from human beings, as self-centered habits of draining emptiness. They include the seven deadly sins, plus fearfulness and dishonesty. Seeing life this way, the more we try to get, and the more we do get, the more we feel we need to get.
Now, to take a closer look at yourself along these lines, the CAS feedback will help you
· see the highest scores of your fruits of the spirit and fruits of the flesh, compared to other Christians;
· see how all these fruits are seen as beliefs and habits that be changed by faith and works;
· examine both what you take in and put out of all nine issues, in private, at home, and out in public; and
· use our 27 Learning Tools, one of each for the nine soul foods: Devotional Guides each explaining 20+ Bible passages, Life Lessons from psychology, and Parenting Tips for raising healthy children.
For personal growth and healing, take the test at mynewlife.com/cas ,
and get a personal health check-up that is free, anonymous, and emailed to you immediately!
